Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) has reportedly conducted a strike in Pakistan on Tuesday night. The IRGC Ground Force’s Quds Base in Southeastern Iran said in the statement that two of its border guards were freed in a successful intelligence operation on Tuesday night.
In an official statement, IRGC said, “A successful operation was carried out last Tuesday night to rescue two kidnapped border guards who were taken as hostages by Jaish ul-Adl organization two and a half years ago”. Iran faces no loss in this surgical strike as all the soldiers were transferred back to Iran safely.
According to a report on 16th October 2018, Pak terrorist group ‘Jaish ul-Adl’ has kidnapped 12 IRGC guards in the Baluchestan Province of Pakistan near the border between the two countries.
Then military officials from Tehran and Islamabad formed a committee to rescue kidnapped IRGC soldiers. On 15th November 2018, five of the soldiers were released, while four more Iranian soldiers were rescued by the Pakistani army on 21st March 2019.
The terrorist group, that has been staging cross-border attacks into southeast Iran from southwest Pakistan, had also claimed responsibility for the February 2019 attack on Iran’s Basij paramilitary base which killed and wounded dozens of IRGC members after their bus came under terrorist attack in the province.
